The 55,000-square-foot Veterans Memorial Park has two statue pools, a center fountain pool, a small shallow pool and the large radius pools and waterfall. Five thousand of the sidewalk's 24,000 brick pavers are commemorative.

Courage, the latest statue at the Huntsville Madison County Veterans Memorial was put at the west entrance to the park earlier this month.

Independence Tube Phoenix rebuilding project

The company's award-winning entry for the Independence Tube Phoenix rebuilding project also qualified for ABC's national competition. Eighty percent of the 473,000-square-foot facility in Decatur was destroyed during the April 27 tornadoes last year, with the other 20 percent receiving damage. The new building's new features include manufacturing areas, warehouse space, a barge slip, offices, control rooms, railcar loading and unloading.

Alabama Center for the Arts

The center, a 43,000-square-foot building in downtown Decatur, involved removing and salvaging bricks, hardwood floors and roofing and heart of pine columns from an existing building before beginning the new facility. The three-stories have lecture classrooms, design and painting studios, teaching labs and outdoor kilns.